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Sex Offenders: Fear vs. Fact on Halloween
Source: thecrimereport.org 10/26/21 Media fearmongering over “Registered Sex Offenders” in the community has become an annual Halloween tradition in the same way as razor blades and poison in candy. Wendy Murphy (who famously stated she “never met a false rape claim” during the Duke Lacrosse case) declared in the Boston Herald that “Halloween is like Christmas for sex offenders,” and local news outlets are...
SEPTA rape case is latest in a U.S. pandemic of police lying. There must be consequences.
Source: inquirer.com 10/24/21 The police disinformation about passengers watching the SEPTA rape is just one of a series of cop lies rocking the U.S. political debate. Enough is enough! You know the old adage that a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth gets a chance to put its pants on. In the aftermath of a shocking rape aboard a SEPTA El...
CA: New Phone Scam Targets Local Registered Sex Offenders, Sheriff’s Office Says
Source: lostcoastoutpost.com 10/14/21 The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has recently received reports of a phone scam targeting local PC 290 Registrants. As part of this scam, the caller claims they are from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and tells the victim that due to “new laws”, they are now out of compliance with current PC 290 registration requirements. The scammer tells the victim that...
She Poses as Teen Girls to Catch Pedophiles Online
Source: thedailybeast.com 10/26/21 The new Discovery+ series “Undercover Underage” trails Roo Powell, who regularly poses as young girls—employing a variety of disguises—to catch child sexual predators online. Filling the vacuum left by NBC’s popular To Catch a Predator (which last aired in 2007), Undercover Underage charts the efforts of intrepid activists to identify and gather evidence on child predators so that local law enforcement...
IL: First female mayor of Illinois village sparks outrage after hiring registered child sex offender who spent 24 years in prison for brutal gang rape to be town’s code enforcement officer – which requires him to enter homes
Source: dailymail.co.uk 10/25/21 The new mayor of a village in a Chicago suburb unleashed a firestorm after it has emerged that she hired a registered child sex offender who worked on her campaign to be the town's code enforcement officer - a job that requires him to inspect inside homes and businesses. Trustees in the Village of Dolton - a community of 23,000 located...
What Led a Well-off Israeli Teen to Seduce and Murder a Sex Offender?
Source: haaretz.com 10/25/21 'A very sensitive kid' is how classmates describe the 16-year-old accused of murdering a convicted sex offender, after seducing him using Instagram. In a journal, he recounts the murder in detail, including carving a swastika with a knife About two months ago, the central district of the Israeli State Prosecutor’s Office filed an official indictment on the charge of aggravated murder....
Virgin Islands: $400,000 Award from the U.S. Department of Justice in Support of SORNA
Source: justice.gov 10/25/21 ST. THOMAS, USVI – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands has received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in support of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. The award from the DOJ’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) supports the vital work of...
States Can Shorten Probation and Protect Public Safety
Source: pewtrusts.org 12/3/20 More than 3.5 million, or 1 in 72, adults were on probation in the United States at the end of 2018—the most recent year for which U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data is available—more than triple the number in 1980.1 Nationwide, on any given day, more people are on probation than in prisons and jails and on parole combined. At...
IN: Community raises concerns on operator of new business run by a registrant
Source: washtimesherald.com 10/13/21 LOOGOOTEE – The fact that a convicted sex offender has opened a tattoo shop near a preschool brought out an overflow crowd of more than 30 to Tuesday’s Loogootee City Council meeting. Makenzie Wagoner, 19, made an impassioned plea for city officials and the public at large to take action to protect young children. She does not want the business closed,...
W.A.R. Room: Alex Gittinger leads a discussion of Registry, Public Scrutiny, Cocooning and Mental Health on Oct 26
Source email from Women Against Registry 10/25/21 Our next guest in The WAR Room will be Alex Gittinger on Tuesday, Oct 26, 2021 at 5 PM Pacific Time, 7 PM Central Time. Alex will share his story and insights into how the registry can impact mental health. Pre-registration is required! Alex is Group Lead and Board Member with Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws...
India Shocked to Discover that 96 percent of sexual abusers of minors in India are relatives or friends of the family
Source: goachronicle.com 10/23/21 Sexual abuse of a child is a horrific and heinous crime. Everyday in different parts of India cases of child sexual abuse are being reported, many however, continue to remain unreported. The most shocking truth about child sexual abuse in India is that in all child sexual abuse case reported in the country which is part of the National Crime Records...
FL: Florida Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing Fellow Convicted Child Sex Offender Cellmate. He ‘Stomped’ on His Throat
Source: lawandcrime.com 10/21/21 A judge in Florida this week sentenced a 44-year-old man to spend the remainder of his life behind bars for the brutal murder of his former prison cellmate—a convicted child sex offender—whose throat he crushed. A Santa Rosa County jury on Tuesday found Jimmy Ray Carruthers guilty of second-degree murder in the 2019 death of his 78-year-old cellmate, David Kever, the...
Other than prison, electronic monitoring is ‘the most restrictive form’ of control, research finds
Source: nbcnews.com 9/23/21 In the past 18 months, as the judicial system has increasingly used electronic monitoring instead of prisons to monitor inmates through the coronavirus pandemic, newly released data confirm what activists and advocates have long argued: Ankle monitors are onerous, and they often subject wearers to vague rules, like avoiding people of “disreputable character.” The ankle monitoring business, the research found, is...
AL: Jackson County child pornographer sentenced to 320 years in prison
Source: waaytv.com 10/20/21 A Jackson County man has been sentenced to 320 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges involving child pornography. Stephen Frederick ____, 51, on Wednesday was sentenced to 3,840 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. In August, Stephen Frederick ____pleaded guilty to 10 counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child...
SD: Transient man sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender in South Dakota
Source: drgnews.com 10/19/21 A transient man convicted of failure to register as a sex offender has been sentenced by a federal court judge in South Dakota. 55 year old Daniel James Cooper must spend 78 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. Read the full article
Canada: ‘Like I’m being raped all over again,’ child porn survivor tells court
Source: leaderpost.com 8/26/21 Three women shared with the court the long-term impacts child pornography has had on them and their children. “Lily” has never stopped being victimized by child pornography. As a child, she was sexually abused by her stepfather, the acts recorded and shared online. Although Lily is now an adult with children of her own, she continues to suffer from more than...
Hong Kong: Three arrests made over ‘paedophile video
Source: news.rthk.hk 8/30/21 Police on Monday said they had arrested two men on suspicion of the false imprisonment of a man they accused of being a paedophile. The alleged victim was also arrested, on suspicion of possessing child pornography. Police linked the arrests to a video which circulated widely on social media and appeared to show a group of men ganging up on a...
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TN: Here’s how to keep your kids safe on Halloween
Source: fox13memphis.com 10/18/21 The Tennessee Department of Corrections is working to keep kids safe from predators on Halloween. TDOC launched ‘Operation Blackout’ earlier this month, an annual statewide operation to ensure sex offenders are complying with the conditions of their supervision, including special condition related to the Halloween holiday, according to a release from TDOC. All registered sex offenders must follow a specific set...
NARSOL press release calls out NCMEC for false information
Source: narsol.org 10/18/21 In its release against ALI, NCMEC not only makes false implications, they print actual lies. They imply that stranger danger is a serious threat to children, but they lie in saying that if there were no public sex offense registry, companies that hire people to work with youth would have no way of determining if a person had a sexual...
FBI agents had women in office pose as kids to bait sexual predators, watchdog says
Source: mcclatchydc.com 8/3/21 FBI agents are accused of using photos of young staffers to lure sexual predators, authorities said. The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General recently released a report accusing some FBI special agents of having women in the agency’s support staff — who were not certified to go undercover — pose as minors or sex workers in photos that were...